The media has gone overboard by continuing broadcasting the VT event. Instead of making it into a media frenzy, we should allow the families to grief in private; and not poke fun of this horrible situation with Cho speculations.
I remember watching CSI Las Vegas one night, the eposide was about a man suffering through medical problems on a plane, and was showing some mad man behavior which led to the entire plane to kill him. (Well, you can look up the story). Despite the situation @ VT was reversed.
The point of the eposide was, it took the whole plane to kill that man, but it would only take 1 person to save the man, and the horrible situation that had happened.
@ VT's case. It took years of bullying to cause a man mad. But it would only take one person to show kindness, and change the potential mad man's mental state. Thus, this tragedy would have been prevented.
At the end of the day, one person's kindness could raise hopes in a desperate man.
I remember watching CSI Las Vegas one night, the eposide was about a man suffering through medical problems on a plane, and was showing some mad man behavior which led to the entire plane to kill him. (Well, you can look up the story). Despite the situation @ VT was reversed.
The point of the eposide was, it took the whole plane to kill that man, but it would only take 1 person to save the man, and the horrible situation that had happened.
@ VT's case. It took years of bullying to cause a man mad. But it would only take one person to show kindness, and change the potential mad man's mental state. Thus, this tragedy would have been prevented.
At the end of the day, one person's kindness could raise hopes in a desperate man.
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A good movie to relate to? Try the "Freedom Writers"
3 comments:
I agree. Even juz a smile helps!
But I wonder if Cho thinks the same. At least his family treat him very well as far as we can read from the news, he is not alone at all. I dunno... but I do feel sorry for him tho. *shrug*
I know the episode you were talking about, it was a real case i believe, ppl do get crazy in a confine place like an airplane, where they feel like they have nowhere to escape, and violence is the result. I think that is also why cho feels necessary to kill, he feels being trapped.
Watched a bit of Freedom Writers on the plane...
I think the VT thing is a combination a of a lot of factors... like you said, it takes years for the problem to come to a point like that... it's not an overnight thing. For sure, though, there are both nature and nurture factors at work in this case and incidents like it. It's sad that everyone is focusing on "metal detectors at school" or "students should carry guns to protect themselves" and not really thinking about why it is that the students need protecting.
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